 | Thomas Jefferson - 1999 - 623 pagina’s
...enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patriot of the other. For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another: in which he must lock up the faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends... | |
 | Jan Lewis, Jan Ellen Taylor, Peter S. Onuf - 1999 - 280 pagina’s
...enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patriae of the other. For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another: in which he must lock up the faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends... | |
 | Peter S. Onuf - 2000 - 250 pagina’s
...white oppressors. This half of the population could have no "amor patriae," "for if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another."7 The blacks and whites of Virginia were two distinct nations whose natural relationship... | |
 | Jeffrey F. Meyer - 2001 - 354 pagina’s
...slavery. The rights of the slaves themselves have been trampled on, he says, and if a slave can ever have a country in this world, "it must be any other in...in which he is born to live and labor for another." The effect on the masters is equally devastating, he said, for "the whole commerce between master and... | |
 | Paul Finkelman
..."Expatriation" was always part of Jefferson's notion of a proper manumission: "If a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another." Jefferson supported colonization even as he understood that the cost of moving... | |
 | Olaudah Equiano - 2001 - 331 pagina’s
...enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patriae of the other. For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another: in which he must lock up the faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends... | |
 | David McCullough - 2001 - 752 pagina’s
...must be any other in preference to that in which he is to be born to live and labor for another ... or entail his own miserable condition on the endless generations proceeding from him. . . . Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep... | |
 | Paul C. Metcalf - 2002 - 246 pagina’s
...enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patriae of the other. For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference...condition on the endless generations proceeding from him. Burnaby: From what has been said of this colony, it will not be difficult to form an idea of the character... | |
 | John T. Noonan - 2002 - 206 pagina’s
...slavery transformed slaves into enemies and destroyed their love of country: "For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another." To the objection of national security, he added that of religion or ideology:... | |
 | William Wells Brown - 2004 - 285 pagina’s
...enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patriae of the other! For if the slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another; in which he must lock up the faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends... | |
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For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labor for another... 
